Carpet-stretcher and tack-driver



(No Model.)

F. KOEPP & J. C. GUETH.

CARPET STRETCHER AND TACK DRIVER.

mu 8 w E i W a d war A Patented Jan. 1, 1889.

find (44444 J m 1; p'sivffl w Vi i A I z R/P. 1 d 7 WM. W 9 A M 5 u N N. PETERS, Phu\o-l.ilhognphur, Waahin mn, D. C.

" FFI on.

UNITED STATES QATENT FERDINAND KOEPP AND JOHN CONRAD GUETII, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARPET-STRETCHER AND TACK-DRIVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,497, dated January 1, 1889.

Application filed May 9, 1888. Serial No. 273,373. (No model.)

To (I/ZZ 7117mm may concern: a a heavy knob, n, which gives the driving- Be it known that we, FERDINAND KOEPP rod a the proper weight for driving the tacks. and JOHN CONRAD GUETH, citizens of the i A reduced portion at the lower end of the United States, residing at Pittsburg, in the driving-rod a forms a shoulder, which bears county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvaagainst the top of the small tube 1 and prenia, have invented certain new and useful Imvents the rod a breaking the screw Z. 5 5

movements in a Combined Carpet-Stretcher In operation the driving-rod a is elevated,

and 'lack-Driver; and we do hereby declare and by a slight turn the screw Z is seated in a the following to be a full, clear, and exact dcsmall offset, 7.1, formed at the top of the slot j.

IO scription of the invention, such as will enable A tack is dropped into the open end of the others skilled in the art to which it pertains small brass tube 1', being careful to place the to make and use the same, reference being head next to the magnetized point of the had to the accompanying drawings, which ClllVlIlg-lOCl a. By means of the toothed plate form a part of this specification. g a grip is taken on the carpet and the de- 15 Our invention relates to an improvement in vice held in an inclined position. The opera carpet-stretcher and tack-driver; and it ator now by pressure brings the carpet to the consists of the novel parts, as will be fully set desired position, and at the same time releases forth hereinafter. the pin Z from the notch k at the top of the In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is slot j. The driving-rod a is brought forcibly 20 a perspective view of the lower portion of an down, which drives the tack into the carpet.

improved carpet-stretcher and tack-driver Having thus described our invention, what constructed'in accordance with our invention. we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the upper portion ent, is-

of the same. l i I is a side sectional eleva- A carpet-stretcher and tack-driver consist- 25 tion ofcarpet-stretchor and the lower portion ing of a tube, l),having a slot, 7, provided w1th of the driving-rod. an offset, 7., a guide-tube, t, of less diameter To put our invention into practice, we prothan the tube Z) and arranged in line there- 7 vide a steel rod, (1, of suitable length and in with, a hollow threaded casting, d, into oppoclose the same in atnbe, I), somewhat shorter, site ends of which the meeting ends of the 0 having securely attached to the lower end a tubes 7) 'z'. are detachably screwed, having a casting, r, consisting of a boss, ('1', in which laterally-bent arm, 6, arranged at one side of So the tube b is secured, and a downwardly-prosaid guide-tube t and terminating in a broad jecting portion, (a, braced by a stout rib, f, toothed head,g,andan endwise-movablerod, a,

formed on the back of the same. To the fitted in said tubesb'i, and provided at an in- 3 5 lower end of this downwardly-projectinpiece term ediate point of its length with a shoulder,

c is secured a steel plate, g, the lower edge of a, adapted to strike the tube i, and with a which is provided wit-h a series of teeth, 71. guide-pin, Z, which works in the slot j, where- Securedin the base of the boss (I is a short by the two tubes and the casting are united brass tube, 1', which receives the lower portion without bolts, and the tacks are guided to the 40 of the dri ving-rod u, the said rod (1 being magproper position to be driven, substantially as netized on thepoin tin order to lift a tack when described. 1 the same is elevated into the short tube 1'. In testimony that we claim the foregoing Above the point of coi'inection between the we hereunto al'tix our signatures this 23d day boss (I and tube 1) is formed in the latter an of January, A. D. 188R.

45 open slot, j, in which a short screw or pin, 1, FERDINAND KOEPP.

secured in the driving-rod u, is allowed to op- J OllN CONRAD GUE'lll. [14. crate, which screw Z limits the movement of In presence of the rod a. At the top of the tube 1) is secured O. C. LEE,

a suitable handle, on, and at the top of the rod ill. E. HARRISON. 

